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The first week of school was packed full of new experiences in Granny's Gardens. It was a opportunity for students to visit their new gardens and to take inventory of what was growing there. Community was one of the lessons to be learned. "We are all part of a community and the students who had this garden last year, planted the gardens in the spring so you would have produce for your fall harvest." said the garden coordinator.

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After a short discussion about garden etiquette and safety, students spent time investigating what was growing in their gardens.

Each student was assigned a section of the garden that would be their responsibility for the remainder of the school year and wrote her name on the edge of the garden box with black sharpie marker. Her name will have faded away by next September.

Then the fun began! The kids love searching for potatoes! They held their finds proudly.

Some were large, some were small and some had funny shapes - and they came in different colors; red, white and even purple!.

After pulling weeds from our garden, we headed to the potato washing station where we scrubbed the dirt off of the potatoes.

"Gently, now. The skin on freshly dug
potatoes is very tender."

Then it was off to the weighing station where we compared large and small then weighed our largest potato.

On the way, we say some amazing sights, including lots of sunflowers. This one was not completely open yet but it was loaded with pollinating insects.

We delivered our freshly scrubbed potatoes to the cooking station where Granny's helpers cooked the potatoes on the grill. Here was another lesson in community. The potatoes we tasted were harvested by an earlier class and the ones we harvested would be prepared for a later class to taste.

Then it was time for our first class photos.

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

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